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... have written them . The Davideis now remains to be confidered ; a poem which the author defigned to have ex- tended to twelve books , merely , as he makes . no no fcruple of declaring , because the Æneid had that 76 COWLEY . со.
... have written them . The Davideis now remains to be confidered ; a poem which the author defigned to have ex- tended to twelve books , merely , as he makes . no no fcruple of declaring , because the Æneid had that 76 COWLEY . со.
Page 77
Samuel Johnson. no fcruple of declaring , because the Æneid had that number ; but he had leisure or perfeve- rance only to write the third part . Epick po- ems have been left unfinished by Virgil , Sta- tius , Spenfer , and Cowley . That ...
Samuel Johnson. no fcruple of declaring , because the Æneid had that number ; but he had leisure or perfeve- rance only to write the third part . Epick po- ems have been left unfinished by Virgil , Sta- tius , Spenfer , and Cowley . That ...
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... Æneid . Two years after , his father died ; and then , notwithstanding his refolutions and profeffions , he returned again to the vice of gaming , and loft feveral thousand pounds that had been left him . In 1642 , he published " The ...
... Æneid . Two years after , his father died ; and then , notwithstanding his refolutions and profeffions , he returned again to the vice of gaming , and loft feveral thousand pounds that had been left him . In 1642 , he published " The ...
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